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Vile Bodies are bodies that have been vilified by Christian thought, often with catastrophic consequences. The bodies of women, Jews, Muslims, slaves, Blacks, LGBT people, children, wives have all been harmed by negative Christian teaching about bodies. This book sidesteps the endless controversies in the churches about sexuality and gender and goes deeper – unmasking instead the abusive theology that ensures these controversies and their harmful outcomes persist. Drawing extensively from scripture, and from two millennia of church history and theology, Vile Bodies slowly exposes how churches have preferred doctrine to compassion, orthodoxy to justice, and legalism to love, culminating in the global abuse crises in the churches that have largely destroyed their moral credibility.Blogpost: Adrian Thatcher tell us that bodies matter
Adrian Thatcher is Honorary Professor in the Department of Religion and Theology, University of Exeter, U.K. Author of 16 books and editor or co-editor of another five, he is managing editor of Modern Believing, a Trustee of Modern Church, and an Anglican.
Contents 1Introduction: Why ‘Vile Bodies’?Part 1 Ancient Bodies2Some Ancient Hebrew Bodies3Some More Hebrew BodiesPart 2 Early Christian Bodies4Some New Testament Bodies5Some More New Testament Bodies6Yet more New Testament Bodies 7A Virginal Body?Part 3 Disciplined Bodies (100 – 451CE)8 Conceiving Bodies9Pure Bodies10Bodies, Plain and PassionlessPart 4 11Mystical Bodies12Hierarchical Bodies 13Disgusting Male Bodies14Tortured and Enclosed Bodies15Perpetually Inferior Bodies16Colonized, Lynched, and Traumatized Bodies17Spousal Bodies18Desiring Bodies19Queer Bodies20The Church – a Vile Body?21The Abusing Body – the Church 22Glorious BodiesAcknowledgementsBibliography
"... unflinchingly describes millennia of sexuality-related discrimination, exploitation, and trauma suffered by believers. Adrian Thatcher offers an insistent call for how all churches (not just Anglican) can and must affirm bodies as sites of well-being, gender justice, sexual inclusivity, and erotic joy."
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